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Originally Posted by mor54
Hello Olo,
You chose a very interesting aircraft to model. I was reading a book about the aircraft carriers batles for Guadalcanal, and John Leppla was one of the "stars" in this battles, he is a navy ace with 5 IJN aircraft shot down. Becam MIA IN October 1942.
I have a lot of cockpit pictures and other detail pictures, I can e-mail to you if you provide me your e-mail. Additinaly, you can fined detail pictures at this link
SBD-5 Dauntless Walk Around Page 1
Shalom Mor |
I read some historical book about coral sea battle and John Leppla shot down 5 Japanese planes in one action. Here is the nice photo of him(right person on the picture)
It would be great if you could send me pictures..I am sending you my email now. Thank you so much...